#1582 closed defect

setuptools delenda est — at Initial Version

Reported by: davidsarah Owned by: somebody
Priority: major Milestone: 1.11.0
Component: packaging Version: 1.9.0b1
Keywords: setuptools review-needed Cc: vladimir@…
Launchpad Bug:

Description

We need to stop using setuptools, for the following reasons:

  • it frequently downloads, builds, installs, and/or runs the wrong code
  • it frequently gives incorrect, misleading, or insufficient information about what it is doing
  • it operates in a way that is incompatible with many OS packaging practices
  • its behaviour when downloading dependencies is easily exploitable; I don't know of any way to use it securely
  • its implementation is too complex to understand
  • we have needed to maintain a fork in order to partially, and with limited success, mitigate these problems
  • the bugs and design flaws that cause the above problems are not shallow, and it's unlikely that they're going to be fixed any time soon, because it is also poorly maintained.

Dealing with the effects of setuptools' problems on Tahoe-LAFS has inconvenienced users on many occasions and wasted a huge amount of core developer time. This ticket is to find, or to design and implement, an alternative.

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